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P-Rec. 8: Human and machine-readable persistence policies for semantic artefacts metadata and data must be published. (D2.5) #35

Open GCoen1 opened 3 years ago

GCoen1 commented 3 years ago

Once published in a semantic repository, semantic artefacts will be reused by others to build their information systems. In the eventuality where the semantic artefact, a concept/ term or a relation is deprecated or simply replaced, the repository must publish a persistence policy for the metadata (specifically the duration of archiving of metadata). Such a policy must be both human and machine readable.

Machine readable policies will allow services to automatically detect the change, to either warn the user or to directly integrate the change whenever it is possible. For humans, repositories could use a tombstone page with redirect to the new page when the semantic artefact or the element has been replaced.

Semantic Artefact components (terms/ concepts/ classes) with minimum metadata and GUPRI structures will not, under typical circumstances, be deprecated, but replaced by new versions (P-Rec 1, 2, 3, 4), especially if hosted by trustworthy repositories.

alko-k commented 3 years ago

This needs to be split in two recommendations:

  1. Machine readable policy (Look in agreements where it should be put, how to associate it with terms/collections/ontologies, which ontology to use to describe it)
  2. Application of the policy (there is a system in place to e.g. redirect when a concept is not valid anymore)